I got turned on to this Swedish rifle thing and the 6.5 X 55 round it shoots over 35 years ago when my grandfather, a gunsmith, helped my little brother with sporterizing a Model 96 to a sweet deer rifle. They first used files and rasps to remove the major bumps and steps on the military barrel configuration before taking it to the lathe and turning it down to a nice sporter taper...cut off and recrowned it at 22 inches...mounted a front ramp and blade and a rear Lyman peep set-up..shoots like a dream with those iron sights for my brother.
Since that time I have acquired 5 of my own Swedes and also still have an action and a brand new military barrel for a Moedel 38 shorter rifle.

Quite a few years ago, after the market was being a bit flooded with imports of the Swedish surplus rifles, the ammo companies, one by one, began to jump into the game loading a few lines of the 6.5 X 55 ammo. IT SOLD. And they began to try more loadings including some premium stuff (although most of the velocities were still kinda slow). Then I read an article that some of the major makers were going to start chambering their rifles in the round. Around that same time I was at a gun show and commented to a guy that his prices for some European 6.5 X 55 ammo was way too high considering the American market would soon be embracing the swedish round and rifles.
I still remember him saying "That'll never happen"
He was wrong about it not happening. But he was a little bit right in that the 6.5 X 55 round has still not yet been discovered by the volume of shooters that deserve to be introduced to this GREAT round.